Errol MorrisFilmography

Born:: February 5, 1948 in Hewlett, NY
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Part detective, part philosopher, part poet, part iconoclast, Errol Morris is one of the most important and influential non-fiction filmmakers of his generation. Like such documentary masters as Jean Rouch and Frederick Wiseman, Morris delves into vexing philosophical issues of death, identity...Read More

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Standard Operating Procedure

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Filmmaker Errol Morris (Gates of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line) takes an unflinching look at the Abu Ghraib prison scandal while meditating on the frightening side effects of the War on Terror in a thought-provoking documentary from Participant Productions (An Inconvenient Truth). ~ Jason Buchanan Read More

4/25/08
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

Actors: Philip Glass

Synopsis: Shine director Scott Hicks documents a year in the life of prolific composer Philip Glass in order to explore the work that goes into creating a symphony and offer a detailed overview of his subject's remarkable career. Glass may be a composer whose name is virtually synonymous with the minimalist Read More

4/18/08
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary

Synopsis: Documentary's most important names -- including Albert Mayles, Errol Morris, and Werner Herzog -- discuss their craft in this cinematic celebration of the nonfiction film. Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary spans the modern history of the genre, boasting more than 100 clips from films as Read More

2008
Manufacturing Dissent

Synopsis: In an era where fact, fiction, and legend have become increasingly difficult to distinguish, Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine set out to explore the politically charged climate in America and find out just how documentary director Michael Moore has evolved from a simple filmmaker into an icon of Read More

2007
The Fog of War

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robert S. McNamara

Synopsis: Former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara is the sole focus of documentarian Errol Morris's The Fog of War, a film that not only analyzes McNamara's controversial decisions during the first half of the Vietnam War, but also his childhood upbringing, his education at Berkley and Harvard, his Read More

12/19/03
FilmFest, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Bring the world's most popular film festivals home with this interactive video magazine that travels far north for the Toronto International Film Festival before heading to Chile to attend the Santiago Short Film Fest - all the while speaking with some of the most compelling filmmakers and Read More

2000
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Crew: Director

Actors: Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Synopsis: Throughout his work, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris has sought out characters lost in their own eccentric worlds, and he has managed to convey their sense of wonder with their passion, be it a topiary gardener arguing the merits of hand shears in Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) or Read More

12/29/99
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Rodney Brooks, Dave Hoover, Ray Mendez, George Mendonca

Synopsis: Innovative documentary filmmaker Errol Morris often finds a startling surreal edge in the midst of reality, seeking unique subjects, and discovering humor and pathos in odd, off-the-beaten-path locales. After Morris attracted attention with his memorable look at pet owners and pet cemeteries in Read More

1997
The Dark Wind

Crew: Director

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Fred Ward, Gary Farmer, John Karlen, Lance Baker

Synopsis: Noted documentary filmmaker Errol Morris made his dramatic feature debut with this story about murder and other dirty dealings on an American Indian reservation. Recent college graduate Jim Chee (Lou Diamond Phillips) has just taken a job with the Navajo Reservation Police in Arizona, where he Read More

1993
A Brief History of Time

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephen Hawking

Synopsis: A Brief History of Time is based on cosmologist Stephen Hawking's 1988 bestseller of the same name. This anecdotal film concerns itself as much with Hawking's day-to-day life as it does with his unorthodox theories about the universe. Only the most close-minded viewer will be bothered by the Read More

8/21/92
The Making of "A Brief History of Time"

Crew: Director

1992
The Thin Blue Line

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Not many filmmakers can claim to have freed a convicted murderer from jail, but Errol Morris accomplished that feat with his stunning documentary about Randall Dale Adams. Morris, whose brilliant previous features Vernon, Florida and Gates of Heaven had focused on less substantial subjects Read More

8/26/88
Hotel New York

Actors: Sid Geffen, Gary Indiana, John Erdman

Synopsis: French director Jackie Raynal recounts her own experiences in the Big Apple in Hotel New York. We first find Ms. Raynal busy editing gay-oriented films. Her real-husband husband Sid Geffen portrays a film exhibitor, who introduces Raynal to his gay son (played by Gary Indiana--we're not making Read More

1984
Vernon, Florida

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: For his second documentary feature, Errol Morris originally set out to chronicle Vernon, FL, because it had the highest rate of a particular sort of insurance fraud -- dismemberment performed for profit -- than any other place in the country. Nothing of that original idea survives in the film Read More

1981
Gates of Heaven

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris' debut immediately attracted acclaim for its straight-faced treatment of a subject practically begging for ridicule. When the Foothill Memorial Gardens pet cemetery, located north of San Francisco, closed (its land was sold for a housing project), the 450 animals Read More

1978
Vengeance of Virgo

Crew: Director

1972